Intel's VA-API 2.22 Library Adds VVC/H.266 Video Decode Interface

Intel engineers today released version 2.22 of libva, the driver-agnostic library for the Video Acceleration API (VA-API). Most notable with libva 2.22 is adding a new interface for Versatile Video Coding (VVC / H.266)...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-libva-VA-API-2.22

Miracle-WM v0.3 Released - Working Out To Daily-Drive This Mir-Based Wayland Compositor

Canonical engineer Matthew Kosarek has released Miracle-WM v0.3 as the newest version of this Wayland tiling compositor built atop Mir. Miracle-WM is beginning to be useful and practical enough for daily driving by its lead developer...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Miracle-WM-0.3

Redox OS Doubles The Performance Of Its File-System & I/O Drivers

The Rust-written Redox OS open-source operating system is out with its monthly development summary that notes some interesting work taking place...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Redox-OS-June-2024

Fedora 41 Looks To Finally Say Goodbye To Python 2.7

A change proposal has been filed by Red Hat engineer Miro Hrončok for retiring Python 2.7 within Fedora 41 and to drop packages still depending upon Python 2...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-41-Drop-Python-2.7

Fedora 42 Looks To Make It Easier For Unprivileged System Flatpaks & Disk Management

In addition to proposed opt-in data metrics collection and the new web-based installer UI, some of the other early proposals for Fedora Linux 42 that isn't due out until April of 2025 is expanding the possibilities for unprivileged users...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-42-Unprivileged-Proposal

Debian GNU/Hurd Adds Experimental 32-bit SMP Kernel & Rust Compiler

The GNU Hurd team has put out their Q2'2024 status update to outline recent activity around this micro-kernel platform...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Hurd-Progress-Q2-2024

CentOS Stream 10 Taking Shape, Fedora-Flavored Kernels From Kmods SIG

While CentOS 7 reached end of life a few days ago, CentOS Stream 10 as the future basis of RHEL 10 continues advancing along with other ongoing initiatives in the CentOS Stream space...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/CentOS-June-2024

Linux's DRM Panic "Screen of Death" Sees Patches For QR Code Error Messages

Linux 6.10 introduces DRM Panic for providing a new panic screen in case of kernel errors and situations where the VT support may be disabled. This new kernel functionality is akin to Windows' Blue Screen of Death or thanks to open-source can be adapted to take on other forms such as a black screen of death and conveying monochrome logos rather than ASCII art. New …
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-DRM-Panic-QR-Codes

KDE Plasma 6.2 To Support libinput's Auto-Scrolling Feature

It's been a busy start to July with KDE developers tackling more features for Plasma 6.2 while continuing to deliver fixes to the modern KDE Plasma desktop stack...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Plasma-6.2-Auto-Scrolling